New York · Private foundation
The Willem de Kooning Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $502k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $51,930
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $74M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Willem de Kooning Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $502k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $249k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $393k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $935k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $2.3M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $2.6M | 88% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $188k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swiss Institute | $1,200,000 | 4 | 19% |
| United States Artists Inc | $1,050,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc | $750,000 | 2 | 9% |
| New York Foundation for the Arts Inc | $697,100 | 4 | 5% |
| The Brooklyn Rail Inc | $559,500 | 7 | 7% |
| Arts Center at Duck Creek Inc | $439,344 | 6 | 54% |
| Participant Inc | $320,000 | 1 | 91% |
| International Studio & Curatorial Program Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Long Island Children's Museum | $150,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($430k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Willem de Kooning Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Kate Cassidy Foundation · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Jct Foundation · The Reba Judith Sandler Foundation Inc · J & Ar Foundation · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Willem de Kooning Foundation
- How much does The Willem de Kooning Foundation give?
- The Willem de Kooning Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $501,930 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Willem de Kooning Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), International (4%), Education (2%).
- Who are The Willem de Kooning Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Swiss Institute ($1.2M), United States Artists Inc ($1.1M), Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc ($750k).
- Does The Willem de Kooning Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Willem de Kooning Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Willem de Kooning Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Kate Cassidy Foundation, The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation.
- Where is The Willem de Kooning Foundation based?
- The Willem de Kooning Foundation is based in NY.
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